Why Is There a Debate About DDR?

The longer this year goes on, the better my team is getting, and the more often I'm dealing with fumbles when my dude has the CAR above 90 and my opponent doesn't, when my guys refuse to cover anyone, but my guys are fly-papered by my opponents' defenders, when they get the block sheds, they get the knockouts, they get the jump balls, and I get the L's.

I get it: There are people that believe they are winning with skill, but there's skill all over the place. Skill is not the reason 92 SPD guys beat every one of my guys to the edge when I told them to cover the edge.

There's a million rants like mine, and this one will go nowhere as the gripes before it, but I fail to understand the real justification for the nonsense I see in games where one roster absolutely outclasses the other. There are better ways to ensure competitive balance than negating the tactical advantages players and teams go into the game with.

My squared-up defenders are dropping two-handed picks like it's August again.

phatalerror said:

The longer this year goes on, the better my team is getting, and the more often I'm dealing with fumbles when my dude has the CAR above 90 and my opponent doesn't, when my guys refuse to cover anyone, but my guys are fly-papered by my opponents' defenders, when they get the block sheds, they get the knockouts, they get the jump balls, and I get the L's.

I get it: There are people that believe they are winning with skill, but there's skill all over the place. Skill is not the reason 92 SPD guys beat every one of my guys to the edge when I told them to cover the edge.

There's a million rants like mine, and this one will go nowhere as the gripes before it, but I fail to understand the real justification for the nonsense I see in games where one roster absolutely outclasses the other. There are better ways to ensure competitive balance than negating the tactical advantages players and teams go into the game with.

All true in general but more to the point, i almost made a thread earlier saying its SUPER OBVIOUS they did some secret quick tune between yesterday and today. Controls are more laggy again (like they were earlier in the year) left stick movement as a ball carrier (which is when madden was good, shouldve stick with it) seems nerfed. 

In particular on kick returns its way more sluggish and unresponsive to kinda "weave" if you will. The whole game plays different today than it did yesterday, and had for weeks since i came back after a long layoff due in no small part to these gripes. They just cant get right. Smh

SquishySoldier21 said:

All true in general but more to the point, i almost made a thread earlier saying its SUPER OBVIOUS they did some secret quick tune between yesterday and today. Controls are more laggy again (like they were earlier in the year) left stick movement as a ball carrier (which is when madden was good, shouldve stick with it) seems nerfed. 

In particular on kick returns its way more sluggish and unresponsive to kinda "weave" if you will. The whole game plays different today than it did yesterday, and had for weeks since i came back after a long layoff due in no small part to these gripes. They just cant get right. Smh

Interesting you say this because I grinded mut draft for a week and developed stick work that did not translate at all to ranked. The difference in feel between ranked, draft, and MCS modes is enough evidence of DDA in itself. I played a lot of big names this year and they all use unique schemes for MCS mode that they labbed with their buddies that don’t work as well in seasons for example. The game modes wouldn’t need to feel way different if there was just an organic one size fits all game mode. They balance accordingly depending on the stakes.

wowurtilted said:

Interesting you say this because I grinded mut draft for a week and developed stick work that did not translate at all to ranked. The difference in feel between ranked, draft, and MCS modes is enough evidence of DDA in itself. I played a lot of big names this year and they all use unique schemes for MCS mode that they labbed with their buddies that don’t work as well in seasons for example. The game modes wouldn’t need to feel way different if there was just an organic one size fits all game mode. They balance accordingly depending on the stakes.

Football is football. There shouldn't be cross-mode 'tuning' outside of what you look for in a House Rules game. There should be persistent attempts by EA to make a football simulation play like football. I'm OK with an Arcade Mode, absolutely. But modes need to work as advertised. Nothing about a Competitive Mode should open the door for 'making the experience more fun for anybody'. Going in and trying to build the most complementary roster shouldn't be reduced to futility because the little guy gets to play with loaded dice and keeps rolling boxcars.